Using Grid/Table Widget Plot Types: Best Practices

What is a Grid/Table Widget Plot Type?

The grid/table is a type of data widget that produces a table display of the data (see the image below).

When creating a grid/table widget, you are given five plot type options which result in a different visual effect for the given data:

1. Default
2. Heat Map
3. Classic
4. Conditional Map
5. Grouped Column

The remainder of this article discusses which use cases are best suited to which plot type. To learn about styling the grid/table widget, see How to Style the Grid/Table Widget.

Best Use Cases for Each Plot Type

Classic

The Classic plot is TapClicks' current grid style. It is preserved for backward compatibility.

Default

The Default plot is a new grid/table style with options for font size, font color, font style, font weight, grid display/hide, wrap text, and alternating row colors and backgrounds.

Grouped Column

Grouped Column plot is a new grid/table style with the ability to create multiple groupings of metrics by column and label them. Grouped Columns are styled with different background colors for better legibility and emphasis.

Heat Map

The brand-new grid/table style known as Heat Map enables users to select a background color for each column in order to display the dataset's metric values in a range of gradations. You can see in the images below the effect of toggling on the gradient option.

Off

On

Conditional Map